ABSTRACT
Search engines give people a way to organize the massive amount of information they find on the Internet so that it may be useful. It does little good to know the answer is “out there,” if one does not know where or how to find it. That’s the goal of search engines. An engine is programming jargon for a program that performs a fundamental or essential function. A search engine has three components: (1) a spider, or crawler, which goes to all sites and all pages to search what is being asked of it; (2) a program that creates an index of all those searched sites; and (3) a program that receives and compares the request before it returns the results to the searcher.
